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Hill morning glory, hillside false bindweed

Coast Range false bindweed, hillside morning glory

Habit Perennials, rhizomatous. Perennials, rhizomatous.
Herbage

moderately to sparsely hairy, hairs appressed, retrorse, or spreading.

tomentellous, tomentose, or villous.

Stems

ascending-decumbent, to 20–30 cm or almost absent.

ascending-decumbent, to 50 cm, sometimes almost absent.

Leaves

in basal rosettes or not;

blade rounded-deltate to triangular-hastate, 30–40 mm, base usually cuneate, sometimes lobed, lobes retrorse, 1-pointed or rounded, margins not or weakly undulate, apex acuminate, acute, rounded, or subacute.

in basal rosettes;

blade usually triangular, sometimes notably 3-lobed, to 40 mm, base ± lobed, lobes oblong to triangular, 1–3-pointed, margins ± undulate or not, apex rounded to acute.

Bracts

immediately subtending sepals, lanceolate, oblong, or broadly ovate, 7–17 × 1.5–9 mm, shorter, or slightly longer, than sepals, proximally usually flat, sometimes keeled, apex usually rounded, sometimes acute.

immediately subtending sepals, lanceolate, linear-elliptic, or ovate, 5–17 × 1.5–14 mm.

Flowers

sepals 10–13 mm;

corolla white or cream, sometimes pink- to purplish-striped or -tinged, 33–62 mm.

sepals 8–13 mm;

corolla white, (25–)27–50(–55) mm.

Calystegia subacaulis

Calystegia collina

Distribution
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California
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Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Subspecies 5 (5 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Herbage moderately to sparsely hairy, hairs retrorse to spreading; stems almost absent or to 2 cm; leaves in basal rosettes, blade apices usually rounded to acuminate, sometimes subacute; bracts (4–)6–9 mm wide.
subsp. subacaulis
1. Herbage sparsely hairy, hairs appressed; stems ascending-decumbent, to 20–30 cm; leaves not in basal rosettes, blade apices acute; bracts 1.5–4 mm wide.
subsp. episcopalis
1. Leaf blades notably 3-lobed, lobes oblong to triangular, margins not notably undulate; bracts 1.5–3.5 mm wide.
subsp. tridactylosa
1. Leaf blades triangular, usually basally lobed and lobes 1–3-pointed, weakly lobed in subsp. collina, margins undulate or not; bracts 4–14 mm wide.
→ 2
2. Sepals glabrous or medially strigose.
→ 3
3. Leaf blades ± triangular, base weakly lobed, lobes seldom well developed, apex rounded to subacute.
subsp. collina
3. Leaf blades broadly triangular, basal lobes well developed, apex acute.
subsp. oxyphylla
2. Sepals, at least outers, hairy, hairs appressed.
→ 4
4. Leaf blades mostly 40 × 40 mm, margins not undulate.
subsp. apicum
4. Leaf blades mostly 10–20 × 10–20 mm, margins undulate.
subsp. venusta
Source FNA vol. 14. FNA vol. 14.
Parent taxa Convolvulaceae > Calystegia Convolvulaceae > Calystegia
Sibling taxa
C. atriplicifolia, C. catesbeiana, C. collina, C. felix, C. hederacea, C. longipes, C. macounii, C. macrostegia, C. malacophylla, C. occidentalis, C. peirsonii, C. pubescens, C. purpurata, C. sepium, C. silvatica, C. soldanella, C. spithamaea, C. stebbinsii, C. vanzuukiae
C. atriplicifolia, C. catesbeiana, C. felix, C. hederacea, C. longipes, C. macounii, C. macrostegia, C. malacophylla, C. occidentalis, C. peirsonii, C. pubescens, C. purpurata, C. sepium, C. silvatica, C. soldanella, C. spithamaea, C. stebbinsii, C. subacaulis, C. vanzuukiae
Subordinate taxa
C. subacaulis subsp. episcopalis, C. subacaulis subsp. subacaulis
C. collina subsp. apicum, C. collina subsp. collina, C. collina subsp. oxyphylla, C. collina subsp. tridactylosa, C. collina subsp. venusta
Synonyms Convolvulus subacaulis Convolvulus collinus, C. malacophyllus subsp. collinus
Name authority Hooker & Arnott: Bot. Beechey Voy. 363. (1839) (Greene) Brummitt: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 52: 215. (1965)
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